Text compilation/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Zhu Shaojie
1◆ Reading: There are more young people who love reading than they imagined
At the occasion of “World Reading Day”, various reading reports have been released one after another. The “Guangdong Provincial National Reading Index (2021)” points out that the comprehensive reading rate of adult residents in Guangdong in 2021 was 94.77%, and the average annual reading time for adult residents was 6.21 paper books, and the average daily digital reading time was 123.82 minutes, both of which increased from the previous year. More and more Guangdong residents are willing to spend money on reading.
Reading Day Activities in various places
Dangdang.com and EasyCinemaReading Over Ten Thousands of Volumes | National Reading Insights 2022″ show that more young people love reading than they imagined, and nearly 30% of users keep reading for more than 2 hours a day, of which more than 50% of those born in the 1990s and 2000s are.
2◆ Cultural Relics and Archaeology: Guangdong Province held a cultural relics and archaeology work conference
April 18 is the international monument siteCinema Day, the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Work Conference was held in Guangzhou. The Cinema meeting emphasized that we must strengthen cultural confidence, take cultural relics and archaeology as a great event in inheriting historical culture and maintaining Komiks as a great event in the national spirit, and work hard to implement it, and systematically sort out the cultural context of Lingnan, strengthen the excavation, sorting and interpretation of archaeological fruits, and promote the “longevity” of historical and cultural heritage.
The day after the meeting, senior outstanding archaeologists gathered at Guangzhou International Media Port to share online and offline simultaneously around the three keywords “interesting archaeological events, current situation, and vision”. Front-line archaeologists said that Guangdong archaeology has its own characteristics.
“In the historical process of the origin and development of Chinese civilization and the formation and development of a unified multi-ethnic country, Guangdong is not outside, but actively participates in it.ps://comicmov.com/”>Komiks‘s unique contribution. This is also the conclusion drawn through our archaeological discoveries.”
Site of the sharing session
3◆ Cultural Relics: Komiks Experts from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage said that “digital collections” should not be sold
As the NFT encryption art has entered the mainstream vision in recent years, BabaylanThe transaction continues to be hot, and overseas art institutions have successively launched NFT projects to sell NFT artworks to the public. my country’s cultural and museum institutions have also begun to try to develop “digital collections” based on existing resources and cultural IPs.
Recently, the relevant departments of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage organized a symposium on the relevant situation of digital collections in Beijing to discuss the current development status of digital collections. Among them, the experts at the meeting believed that in the development and utilization of cultural relics information resources, cultural and museum units should adhere to the public welfare attributes, and cultural and museum units should not directly sell the original data of cultural relics as limited products, and ensure the security of cultural relics information.
At present, my country only allows the sale of digital collections on blockchain platforms registered and approved by the Cyberspace Administration of China, and prohibits secondary sales under any circumstances. The official department is still cautious about digital collections.
A certain “digital collection”
4◆ New Academic: Big Data Research Tang Poetry and Song Ci
According to Wang Zhaopeng, chief expert of the “Construction of Information Platform of Tang and Song Literature Chronicles” of the National Social Science Fund’s major project, and professor of the School of Literature and Journalism at Sichuan University, the results were very different.
For example, Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, had the highest number of works, but his influence ranks outside the tenth; among the famous Song Dynasty poems, Komiks, the ones with the most lyrics included are not Su Shi and Xin Qiji but Zhou Bangyan; the comprehensive influence index shows that Du Fu is superior to Li Bai and Xin Qiji is superior to Su Shi, etc.
5◆Unbound: “Harvest” launches the world’s first literary digital collectionBlind Box
In order to break through the boundaries of time and space and implement the vast spirit of literary boundlessness, on April 23 this year, the “Harvest” and the Harvest App, together with People’s Literature Publishing House, Yilin Publishing House, Huacheng Publishing House, writers Cinema Publishing House, CITIC Publishing Group, and Guomai, jointly issued the world’s first literary digital collection blind box – “Borderless”.
Of the 1,995 blind boxes issued in total, the producers issued two digital collections for the same writer:
1. Static digital collection (a picture: an innovatively designed book cover + a handwritten signature of the author), which is loaded into a blind box for users to open a blind box to collect; 2. Dynamic digital collection (a video: an innovatively designed book cover + a handwritten signature of the author + a original voice of the author), for use in synthetic activities.
Each Babaylan blind boxes can randomly open a static digital collection of writers. Cinema
6◆ Guangzhou New Rhyme: Guangzhou “Beijing Road Bookstore” resumed business
On April 23, Beijing Road Xinhua Bookstore (hereinafter referred to as “Beijing Road Bookstore”) located in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou officially resumed business. Beijing BabaylanJing Road Xinhua Bookstore was established on November 7, 1949. It is the first state-owned bookstore after the liberation of Guangzhou.
After upgrading and transformation, the bookstore has been transformed into a “Guangfu New Rhyme” Lingnan characteristic composite bookstore, with more than 40,000 books, meeting readers’ various reading needs.
The renovated “Beijing Road Bookstore”
In 2021, in order to cooperate with the renovation and upgrading of Beijing Road Pedestrian Street, Guangzhou Xinhua Bookstore Group innovatively proposed the concept of “bookstore community”, through the Beijing RoadBabaylanThe design, functions, business formats of 6 Xinhua Bookstores (Beijing Road Bookstore, Beijing Road Children’s Bookstore, Ancient Bookstore, Lingnan Bookstore, Science and Technology Bookstore, Jiyazhai) have been upgraded and transformed in all aspects to create a unique urban bookstore community characteristics.
7Komiks◆ Sample: Bay Area ink practices are unveiled in Macau
On April 15, the exhibition “Imagination – Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Contemporary Ink Art Gallery (2000-2022)” was exhibited at the Macau Art Museum Babaylan Museum. BabaylanThe exhibition is curated by critic Mr. Pi Daojian, and more than 50 outstanding artists from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are invited to participate.
The exhibition site is the first academic project to take the Greater Bay Area as a regional water research sample. The exhibition conducts phased observation, summary and sorting out the development of contemporary ink art in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao since the new century.
8◆ Breasts of Dreams: The 59th Venice Biennale opened
The 59th Venice Biennale officially opened on April 23, and this Golden Lion Award Ceremony was also held on the same day. The Biennale Babaylan is head curator with Cecilia Alemane and is themed “Dream Breasts”.
The theme exhibition of this biennial included 213 artists from 58 countries, and 80 Komiks National Pavilions. Of the 213 art homes participating in the exhibition, only 21 are male (slightly less than 10%, including living and late artists). This Biennale also adds a Ukrainian artopen-air exhibition.
The theme of the exhibition of the China Pavilion is “Yuanjing”, and Zhang Zikang, director of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, serves as the curator.
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